The above recipe is for boiling potatoes in their jackets, as the
phrase goes. When potatoes are to be peeled prior to cooking, the
tubers should first be well washed and put in a bowl of clean water.
As each potato is taken out of this receptacle and peeled, it should
be thrown into another bowl of cold water, close at hand to receive
them. This prevents undue discolouration of the potatoes.